Erik van Bergen

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Erik van Bergen is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik van Bergen has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 11 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Erik van Bergen's work include Plant and animal studies (16 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Erik van Bergen is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (16 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Erik van Bergen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and Finland. Erik van Bergen's co-authors include Paul M. Brakefield, Stéphanie Heuskin, Caroline M. Nieberding, Bas J. Zwaan, Oskar Brattström, Patrícia Beldade, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Marjo Saastamoinen and Ossi Nokelainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Evolution and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Erik van Bergen

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences

2013 1.0k citations Erik van Bergen, Paul M. Brakefield et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erik van Bergen United Kingdom	13	545	361	333	282	241	19	1.3k
Alessandro Grapputo Italy	22	624 1.1×	530 1.5×	461 1.4×	396 1.4×	253 1.0×	57	1.7k
Aaron A. Comeault United States	18	666 1.2×	958 2.7×	280 0.8×	227 0.8×	212 0.9×	35	1.5k
Dominique Mazzi Switzerland	23	789 1.4×	442 1.2×	462 1.4×	697 2.5×	164 0.7×	47	1.6k
François‐Xavier Dechaume‐Moncharmont France	22	858 1.6×	393 1.1×	439 1.3×	384 1.4×	177 0.7×	52	1.4k
Donald K. Price United States	22	903 1.7×	600 1.7×	430 1.3×	380 1.3×	116 0.5×	58	1.5k
Thomas P. Wilcox United States	11	482 0.9×	521 1.4×	366 1.1×	167 0.6×	146 0.6×	11	1.5k
Barbara Feldmeyer Germany	24	759 1.4×	1.0k 2.8×	425 1.3×	538 1.9×	143 0.6×	77	1.7k
José Á. Andrés United States	27	1.0k 1.9×	800 2.2×	504 1.5×	316 1.1×	201 0.8×	57	1.8k
Michelle Trautwein United States	17	560 1.0×	378 1.0×	146 0.4×	245 0.9×	64 0.3×	23	1.2k
Patrick D. Lorch United States	19	806 1.5×	561 1.6×	435 1.3×	336 1.2×	163 0.7×	35	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik van Bergen

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19 of 19 papers shown

Molleman, Freerk, Megan E. Moore, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, et al.. (2024). Larval growth rate is not a major determinant of adult wing shape and eyespot size in the seasonally polyphenic butterfly Melanitis leda. PeerJ. 12. e18295–e18295. 2 indexed citations

Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2024). Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism. Functional Ecology. 38(8). 1765–1778. 2 indexed citations

Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2024). Seasonal plasticity in sympatric Bicyclus butterflies in a tropical forest where temperature does not predict rainfall. Biotropica. 56(5). 1 indexed citations

Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2021). Additive and non‐additive effects of day and night temperatures on thermally plastic traits in a model for adaptive seasonal plasticity. Evolution. 75(7). 1805–1819. 7 indexed citations

Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, Erik van Bergen, Szabolcs Sáfián, et al.. (2021). Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification inBicyclus, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies. Systematic Biology. 71(3). 570–588. 17 indexed citations

Brattström, Oskar, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, Erik van Bergen, Vernon French, & Paul M. Brakefield. (2020). A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27474–27480. 13 indexed citations

Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2020). Seasonal environments drive convergent evolution of a faster pace‐of‐life in tropical butterflies. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 102–112. 12 indexed citations

Bergen, Erik van, Tad Dallas, Michelle F. DiLeo, et al.. (2020). The effect of summer drought on the predictability of local extinctions in a butterfly metapopulation. Conservation Biology. 34(6). 1503–1511. 37 indexed citations

Singh, Pragya, et al.. (2020). Complex multi-trait responses to multivariate environmental cues in a seasonal butterfly. Evolutionary Ecology. 34(5). 713–734. 16 indexed citations

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Saastamoinen, Marjo, et al.. (2020). Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1941). 20202577–20202577. 13 indexed citations

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Bergen, Erik van & Patrícia Beldade. (2019). Seasonal plasticity in anti-predatory strategies: Matching of color and color preference for effective crypsis. Evolution Letters. 3(3). 313–320. 29 indexed citations

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Brakefield, Paul M., et al.. (2018). Developmental plasticity for male secondary sexual traits in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies. Oikos. 127(12). 1812–1821. 13 indexed citations

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Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2017). Conserved patterns of integrated developmental plasticity in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 59–59. 43 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Ossi, Erik van Bergen, Brad S. Ripley, & Paul M. Brakefield. (2017). Adaptation of a tropical butterfly to a temperate climate. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(2). 279–289. 12 indexed citations

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Nokelainen, Ossi, Brad S. Ripley, Erik van Bergen, Colin P. Osborne, & Paul M. Brakefield. (2016). Preference for C₄ shade grasses increases hatchling performance in the butterfly, Bicyclus safitza. Ecology and Evolution. 6(15). 5246–5255. 11 indexed citations

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Bergen, Erik van, H. S. Barlow, Oskar Brattström, et al.. (2016). The stable isotope ecology of mycalesine butterflies: implications for plant–insect co‐evolution. Functional Ecology. 30(12). 1936–1946. 20 indexed citations

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Nieberding, Caroline M., Erik van Bergen, Paul M. Brakefield, Stéphanie Heuskin, & Bas J. Zwaan. (2013). The scent of inbreeding: male sex pheromones betray inbred males. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations

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Bergen, Erik van, Paul M. Brakefield, Stéphanie Heuskin, Bas J. Zwaan, & Caroline M. Nieberding. (2013). Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences. 1034 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bergen, Erik van, Paul M. Brakefield, Stéphanie Heuskin, Bas J. Zwaan, & Caroline M. Nieberding. (2013). The scent of inbreeding: a male sex pheromone betrays inbred males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1758). 20130102–20130102. 41 indexed citations

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